Rescuers scour North Carolina mountains for survivors cut off by Hurricane Helene
Asheville, North Carolina, US Reuters Search-and-rescue teams who have already saved hundreds of people scoured the mountains of western North Carolina for more survivors on Tuesday, working amid washed-out roads, smashed bridges and felled power lines following Hurricane Helene. The storm has killed at least 162 people in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee […]
Hurricane Helene kills at least 90 in US; homes and memories washed away
Flat Rock, North Carolina Reuters The south-eastern US began a huge cleanup and recovery effort on Sunday and the death toll climbed towards 100 after Hurricane Helene knocked out power for millions, destroyed roads and bridges and caused dramatic flooding from Florida to Virginia. The storm’s winds, rain and storm surge killed at least 90 […]
Sight-Seeing: Whose Christianity do Christian nationalists want?
In an article first published by Religion News Service, MARCI A HAMILTON says it was the diversity of Christianity, as much as other faiths, that inspired the founders’ concern for religious liberty…
Lifestory: In ‘Cops, Criminals and Christ’ podcast, undercover cop-turned-pastor shares his story
FIONA ANDRÈ, of Religion News Service, reports that Dale Sutherland says his encounters with criminals, drug addicts and dealers helped him grow spiritually as much as his time serving parishioners did…
School board in US state of Virginia votes to restore Confederate names
Woodstock, Virginia, US Reuters The education board for a rural Virginia county voted early on Friday to restore the names of Confederate generals stripped from two schools in 2020, making the mostly white, Republican district the first in the US to take such an action. By a five-to-one vote, the Shenandoah County board overturned its […]
“Atoning for a wrong”: US colleges confront slavery ties with descendant scholarships
DAVID SHERFINSKI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports that while, from Harvard to Georgetown, universities and colleges are facing up to their links to slavery, but advocates say more must be done…
Gunman shoots two dead, wounds five others at Virginia high school graduation
Reuters A man armed with four handguns killed two people and wounded five others when he fired into a crowd outside a high school graduation ceremony in Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday, police said. Police said they arrested one suspect, a 19-year-old man who knew one of the victims and shot at him amid the crowd […]
Experts link graves to one of the oldest Black churches in US
United States AP Three men whose graves were found at the original site of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches were members of its congregation in the early 19th century, a team of archaeologists and scientists in Virginia announced last week The First Baptist Church was formed in 1776 by free and enslaved Black […]
Can a teacher put John 3:16 in email signature? In the US, one school district says no; her lawyers say yes
United States RNS Attorneys for a Virginia high school teacher are challenging school officials for requiring the teacher to remove a Bible verse from the signature of her work email messages. Until the recent directive, the teacher had for years, since the time she was hired by the district, included John 3:16 – “For God […]
Essay: How does a child become a shooter? Research suggests easy access to guns and exposure to screen violence increase the risk
In an article first published on The Conversation, US-based academics BRAD BUSHMAN and DAN ROMER look at what data reveals…